Gas Food Lodging

1992 · 101 min · EN · R · 6.3 (48 votes)

Dir. Allison Anders · Starring Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury · Music J. Mascis

“When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.”

DramaRomance

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.

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A quiet, sun-baked portrait of young women navigating small-town ennui and burgeoning adulthood. It feels like a hazy memory, full of unspoken desires and the bittersweet ache of growing up too fast.

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